The latest: Job Corps closures are hitting major cities hard — including the Atlanta area, Detroit, Chicago, Florida, New York and the Bay Area — where thousands of students ages 16–24 rely ...

Students at the Paul Simon Chicago Job Corps Center, 3348 S. Kedzie Ave., said they were blindsided by the decision. Job Corps is a free program for thousands of low-income students across the ...

The Obama Youth Jobs Corps program was created in 2018 in partnership with Urban Alliance, a national youth development nonprofit. To learn more, click here. Report a correction or typo ...

A federal judge has temporarily halted the Trump administration's order to close America's 99 Job Corps centers, which provide residential training programs for 25,000 disadvantaged youth annually.

Operations are back to normal at the Clearfield Job Corps program, at least for now, after a judge's ruling halting plans to shutter it and 98 other programs around the country.

There are 123 Jobs Corps centers in the U.S., the majority of them operated by private organizations under agreements with the Department of Labor.

PORTLAND, Ore. — The U.S. Job Corps training center in Astoria will shut down and lay off 168 staff members after the federal government terminated its contract. According to an Oregon WARN ...

Re: " Job Corps and the Book of Job," June 8: Talk about throwing out the baby with the bath water. I am referring to the opinion piece on Sunday regarding the elimination of Job Corps.

Western Massachusetts Job Corps backers assail stats used to justify shutdown Updated: Jun. 06, 2025, 8:42 a.m. | Published: Jun. 05, 2025, 6:42 p.m.

NEW YORK (AP) — A federal judge on Wednesday granted a preliminary injunction to stop the U.S. Department of Labor from shutting down Job Corps, a residential program for low-income youth, until a ...

Secretary of Labor Lori Chavez-DeRemer looks as Job Corps members stand behind her during a House Education and Workforce hearing, Thursday, June 5, 2025, on Capitol Hill in Washington.